This morning in the pool, a yellow butterfly came and landed on a bush near the water. I smiled. His wings were the happy color of a child’s...

This is my latest release that I've named "Peaceful Paradise". It's stitched on 40 ct Vintage Examplar from Lakeside Linen...

We just finished a summer exchange and I think all the projects were great!

From my sister and it truly is the best cake and frosting recipe: Best Chocolate Cake 2 cups flour 1 tsp salt 1 tsp baking powder 2 tsps ba...

I've been gone way too long but it's been a hectic month. Our 16 year old daughter(in red) is in Japan this month and the empty ne...

The theme for April's ornament challenge was Jane Austen. Lorraine took a Prairie Schooler design and made changes to the verse and a fe...

It's always exciting for me to finally get something framed. This is Floral Urn from Sunflower Samplings. I stitched it in 2004 and fin...

Here's a sneak peak of the top of a new sampler I'm stitching. It's so big it won't completely fit in the scanner and shoul...

I've just released 3 new designs, Maggie's Sampler, Forget Me Not and Liberty. I'm looking forward to see the other new releas...

My friend and I had a great time over Memorial Day in Mexico with our daughters. It was fun to have a girls only trip despite the stove not ...

Cape May is a beautiful Victorian seaside town so I decided to make Victorian seaside thread winder boxes for my friends as you can see abov...

After such a great time last year in Fredricksburg, we decided to meet again, this time in Cape May. Above is the house where we stayed and...

My daughter had her Japanese Speech Contest Saturday and came in 2nd place, yea Maggie! She's the one in the black dress above. The gir...

This is the cover of the June Just Cross Stitch This is the piece I designed. I just received the latest issue of Just Cross Stitch featur...

It's taken me forever to post these two pieces mainly because somehow a red spot appeared in two places on my fabric so I restitched to...